A Cloud Passes Through Your Eyes
19 January 2009 20:00
Project by Atilla Birkiye
Adapted to Stage by Mehmet Birkiye
Music Director and Piano Serdar Yalçın
Poems recited by Tilbe Saran, Metin Belgin,
Bülent Emin Yarar, Hakan Gerçek
Boğaziçi Quartet:
Seda Subaşı 1st violin
A.Ceren Gürkan 2nd violin
Deniz Yücel viola
Çağ Erçağ violoncello
A refined poet of Turkish literature who “has made a name for himself quickly with his poems which are successful blends of essence and form” as defined by Behçet Necatigil, Metin Altıok was born on March 14, 1941 in Bergama. A painter as well, he studied philosophy in Ankara University. After working for the Public Administration Institute, in 1979, he was assigned to the Bingöl High School as a philosophy teacher and worked in Anatolia until retirement. He was severely wounded at the Madımak Hotel during the Sivas Massacre of July 2 and died in Ankara on July 9. His first book of poems Kendinin Avcısı (Hunter of One’s Own) was published in 1976. Other works published during his lifetime are Küçük Tragedyalar (Small Tragedias, 1982), Gerçeğin Öte Yakası (The Other Coast of Reality, 1987), İpek ve Kılabtan (Silk and Gold Thread, 1990), Dörtlükler ve Desenler (Quatrains and Drawings, 1990), Süveydâ (1991), Alaturka Şiirler (Old-fashioned Poemsi, 1992).
The main themes of Altıok’s poems were “the self”, “the world”, “loneliness” and love.
The flood of love in my heart, leaped to and fro
Many women I loved, but they didn’t know.
Adapted to Stage by Mehmet Birkiye
Music Director and Piano Serdar Yalçın
Poems recited by Tilbe Saran, Metin Belgin,
Bülent Emin Yarar, Hakan Gerçek
Boğaziçi Quartet:
Seda Subaşı 1st violin
A.Ceren Gürkan 2nd violin
Deniz Yücel viola
Çağ Erçağ violoncello
A refined poet of Turkish literature who “has made a name for himself quickly with his poems which are successful blends of essence and form” as defined by Behçet Necatigil, Metin Altıok was born on March 14, 1941 in Bergama. A painter as well, he studied philosophy in Ankara University. After working for the Public Administration Institute, in 1979, he was assigned to the Bingöl High School as a philosophy teacher and worked in Anatolia until retirement. He was severely wounded at the Madımak Hotel during the Sivas Massacre of July 2 and died in Ankara on July 9. His first book of poems Kendinin Avcısı (Hunter of One’s Own) was published in 1976. Other works published during his lifetime are Küçük Tragedyalar (Small Tragedias, 1982), Gerçeğin Öte Yakası (The Other Coast of Reality, 1987), İpek ve Kılabtan (Silk and Gold Thread, 1990), Dörtlükler ve Desenler (Quatrains and Drawings, 1990), Süveydâ (1991), Alaturka Şiirler (Old-fashioned Poemsi, 1992).
The main themes of Altıok’s poems were “the self”, “the world”, “loneliness” and love.
The flood of love in my heart, leaped to and fro
Many women I loved, but they didn’t know.